Here are some of the other movements and partnerships you may have missed.
Shure and Neat have partnered to deliver an enhanced mounting experience in large, acoustically demanding spaces. By joining forces, Shure and Neat offer seamless integration between Neat Bar Pro, a Neat video conferencing bar, and Shure Microflex ecosystem solutions, offering a no-compromise experience. audio and video in complex workspaces.
The state-of-the-art combination of Shure and Neat provides a simple, easy-to-install, and scalable solution for any type of room. While Neat Bar Pro provides enhanced video quality that can automatically frame, zoom, and track the player in the room individually, no matter where they are, devices in the Microflex ecosystem perform larger Neat video implementations in larger, more complex spaces, delivering clear, natural audio with other points of form to keep aesthetically pleasing spaces with a reliable appearance.
For giant meeting rooms or spaces where key participants want to be noticed and heard wherever they are sitting, the Shure Microflex Advance MXA902 incorporated a convention ceiling formula and the Shure ANIUSB-MATRIX USB audio network interface provides sound flawless, while Neat Bar Pro captures videos from around you. the room, offer and policy of trusted rooms even in the most difficult spaces.
For conferencing environments, such as fully attended rooms and divisible spaces, the combination of Neat Bar Pro with the popular Microflex Advance MXA920 in-ceiling microphone, an IntelliMix P300 audio conferencing processor, and an MXN5W-C networked speaker offers complex features and capability for a robust, scalable solution.
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NEW VELOCITY FULFILLMENT CENTER DELIVERS MEETING ROOM SOLUTIONS WITH SPEED AND EFFICIENCY
The company announced its new Velocity Logistics Center (VLC) in Flower Mound, Texas, expanding the company’s Velocity brand. The VLC is part of the new 40,000-square-foot Customer Experience Center that will be completed this summer.
Velocity Logistics Center streamlines the entire ordering and implementation process, offering a factory-like technique for assembly, testing, logistics planning, and installation. This production technique ensures consistent quality and speed from order to implementation. The VLC is designed for AVI consumers who want to temporarily deploy 20 to 1000 or more popular meeting room systems in their organization.
AVI consumers can choose from a variety of pre-configured Velocity-certified solutions, ranging from meeting rooms and workspaces to virtual signage solutions. Velocity’s ready-to-wear designs adhere to the latest industry criteria and the most productive practices for the office and fashion sector. It will offer a variety of optional features that can be added based on unique needs. In addition, Velocity certification can be supplemented with the customer’s unique criteria, allowing systems to be available upon request at consistent pricing.
THE AVI SYSTEMS TEAM AND TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS WILL CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN $110,000 TO THE AVIXA FOUNDATION’S BRAD SOUSA IMPACT FUND
Contributions and pledges to the Brad Sousa Impact Fund established through AVIXA earlier this year exceeded $110,000.
“We recently reached out to dozens of our response generation partners and received a great reaction to our request to make a contribution to the Brad Sousa Impact Fund,” said Jeff Stoebner, CEO of AVI Systems. “The generosity of our partners is immense, and we hope others will contribute to Brad’s memory as well. “
Brad Sousa passed away on November 8, 2023, at the age of 62. He is a beloved husband, father, grandfather, friend, and mentor. Professionally, Brad has been instrumental in his role as Chief Technology Officer of AVI Systems and has also served on the Board of Directors of AVIXA and the Board of Directors of the AVIXA Foundation.
Following Sousa’s passing, the Brad Sousa Impact Fund was established through AVIXA in January 2024. This fund finances the work of the AVIXA Foundation with a focus on the progress of audiovisual and virtual transformation professionals and their understanding of the common needs of each. Grants awarded through the fund will go to individuals, systems, and partnerships, focusing on developing virtual transformation and AV professionals and understanding each other’s common needs.
AVI SYSTEMS LAUNCHES NEW EXPERIENCES FOR THE MODERN WORKPLACE
AVI Systems has announced its new customer-centric offering called AVI Experience. This initiative provides customers and consumers interested in professional AV, unified collaboration, Microsoft solutions, virtual media, and streaming solutions with opportunities to connect with AVI at major events across the United States. .
The AVI Experience includes a series of events and exhibits designed to give consumers direct access to AVI’s cutting-edge answers and experience.
AVI reports include:
AVI LIVE: Held 4 times a year, AVI LIVE exhibitions provide attendees with immersive reports and demonstrations of state-of-the-art generation offerings from dozens of leading generation solution providers in an exhibition environment. Each AVI LIVE also includes a keynote presentation and panel discussion led through industry concept leaders. The next four AVI LIVE events will take place in Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Kansas City.
AVI Connect: Regional AVI Connect events are held six times a year at AVI Systems. These events cause visitors to revel in centers where Americans can revel in responses from modern paintings in real-world settings. AVI Connect events will offer decision-makers the opportunity to interact with AVI experts and explore the latest AV solutions in a place that suits them. The AVI in Chicago, Denver, Boston, San Diego and Dallas will host AVI Connect events in the coming months.
AVI/Magenium Modern Work Events: Held quarterly at Magenium’s Microsoft Experience Center in Chicago, these events focus on the modern workplace and showcase the full diversity of AVI and Magenium solutions designed for hybrid and remote work environments.
AVI Systems Microsoft Executive Summit: Held in March in Redmond, Washington, this exclusive occasion gives IT and office transformation leaders the opportunity to engage with key Microsoft thought leaders and be informed about the latest trends and advancements in the Microsoft ecosystem.
Bose Professional has introduced its new sales organization in the United States. Acquired in April 2023 through Transom Capital, an operations-focused personal equity firm, Bose Professional retained its core engineering, product management, and marketing at launch and has built and expanded its autonomous business. operations and infrastructure at an immediate speed over the last 4 quarters.
The new style of sales comes with a mix of in-house sales engineers and managers, independent sales firms, and a new service-oriented website. The new representative corporations in the U. S. U. S. companies include SK Macdonald (SKMac), which serves the Mid-Atlantic and New Atlantic. York, Audio Biz, which helps customers in the Midwest, and HWPCo, which represents the Southeast. In addition, the Bose Professional team in the U. S. It has been reorganized to provide more regional and visitor concentrates. Array with Paxson Laird, Regional Sales Manager, East, and Katie Stewart. , Regional Sales Manager, Central/West, leading expanded sales engineering and design teams.
In addition to announcing its new sales model, Bose Professional also introduced a new online page that includes the full collection of comprehensive Bose Professional educational modules and a new document library, designed to provide integrators and experts with fast, critical files and specifications.
Nureva has joined the Higher Education Technology Managers Alliance (HETMA) as an annual Platinum Partner. As a Platinum Partner, Nureva is able to further introduce its revolutionary audio conferencing systems that provide the simplicity and price needed for giant classrooms. selected through prestigious institutions of higher education across the United States, including Harvard Medical School, Georgetown University, Penn State University, University of Arizona, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Powered by the Microphone Mist generation, Nureva’s audio formulas offer unparalleled adaptability for HyFlex and hybrid learning environments, without the burden and complexity of a classic formula. Thousands of virtual microphones fill giant studio rooms and meeting rooms to pick up voices in each and every one of them. Square inch of space and voice amplification in the room means students will hear clearly, whether they’re in class or interacting remotely. Nureva products incorporate many features designed in particular to meet the desires of higher education generation leaders, adding automatic calibration, meaning IT groups can be confident that when rooms are rearranged to accommodate other elegances, the audio simply adjusts. Nureva’s Chamber Zones feature for the HDL410 formula also helps keep hybrid studio rooms active through sound location awareness to enable automatic switching of multiple cameras in giant studio rooms without any additional software or specialized technical knowledge.
Project Audio Visual has been acquired through AVPM Group, joining AV Store Partsmaster as a sister company, creating a new integration and market-leading retail opportunity.
Combining resources, specializations and technical expertise, the alliance will deliver a complete turnkey solution for AV services, from start to finish, for SMBs and corporate customers.
Firstly, the companies will work in the UK and EU markets, with plans to expand to other territories in 2024. Project Audio Visual will bring its knowledge of the ecosystem to the group, with certification from Microsoft, Google and all the key brands in the market.
Xyte has deepened its partnership with members of the HDBaseT Alliance to empower and drive business spaces within the AV industry. With new features such as Xyte Connect, new features such as SSH tunneling, and many other programs for asset management, remote support, and subscription and e-commerce management, Xyte Device Cloud (XDC) simplifies and refines the way HDBaseT Alliance members serve their price chains.
Valens, a pioneer in AV and IT convergence solutions, leverages XDC to extend the tracking capabilities of HDBaseT chipsets, gaining better connectivity and device control for its HDBaseT chipsets and enabling seamless integration with a built-in cloud environment. Valens has expanded the implementation of XDC for the monitoring and control of its assessment kits, delivering value to brands (including product development), integrators and end users.
Since then, Xyte has expanded its collaboration with industry-leading corporations within the HDBaseT alliance, such as Legrand, AVPro Edge, and WyreStorm, highlighting XDC’s growing importance in the AV ecosystem. These corporations, among others, recognize Xyte as the emerging industry standard. leveraging their cutting-edge responses to meet changing market demands.
Introducing Korbyt Anywhere for Webex, extending the enterprise platform to any Cisco device within the Webex ecosystem. This allows business users to use Cisco devices like any other virtual signage endpoint, maximizing the use and effect of network-connected presentations everywhere. organization. This is the newest in a series of platform-specific product inventions aimed at facilitating communication and collaboration in a variety of other business environments.
Korbyt Anywhere for Cisco devices simplifies scheduling and demonstrating content on any Cisco Desk or Room device. All virtual signage endpoints are controlled as a single platform, editing the meeting room experience and extending the success of an organization’s internal communications network. Setup is simple and requires no additional hardware. Simply connect your Webex account to Korbyt Anywhere and the formula will provision your devices in Korbyt to enable more effective communication across the organization.
Korbyt allows network managers to provision drives in bulk, while other responses require a time-consuming procedure of provisioning players individually. Korbyt also supports the full diversity of Cisco devices, adding the Desk, Board, and Room series devices. Korbyt also integrates with Cisco Workspaces to provide even deeper integration into the workspace environment to visualize real-time occupancy and other physical workspace metrics.
PK Sound has welcomed live production company Unlimited Video Staging (UVS), in Calgary, Canada, to its developing partner network following the company’s investment in a T8 robotic-sourced system. UVS has already leveraged T8’s patented multi-axis robots to mitigate acoustic pollutants while delivering high-impact live entertainment in densely populated urban areas. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of PK Sound in North America.
“UVS has a long-standing reputation as a national leader in video production technologies and services. That’s why, when we made the decision to expand our offering to live audio, we looked for cutting-edge answers that would embellish the reports we deliver. to our consumers and partners,” says Aaron Buchanan, founder and CEO of UVS. “PK Sound’s robot line arrays deliver incredible sound and provide an unprecedented degree of control to tailor acoustic policy to the contours of whatever position or environment our paintings may take. Let us do it. “
The company’s initial investment includes twenty-four T8 robot line source elements and twelve T18 subwoofers. The formula is controlled via a PK cell, which combines power, signal and knowledge distribution in a modular, globally standardized excursion rack, and is controlled by PKArraydynamics software. .
SNA Displays has hired Barbara Barry to lead its sports division. Working from the company’s headquarters in New York City, Barry has a long career in collegiate and sports virtual signage, having supported organizations such as the Los Angeles Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets, Pittsburgh Penguins, Baltimore Orioles, Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks, Orlando City Soccer Club, Arizona State University and Penn State University.
“My customers know I’ll be in this for the long haul,” said Barry, who joins the company as director of sales. “I talk to other people at all levels of the company and management, and the goal is simple: build accept as true and foster long-term relationships. I’m very excited to apply my wisdom and fondness for the service side of the sports industry to a sales position at SNA Displays.
Barry has worked for the better part of two decades at ANC, where she held senior positions as Senior Director of Site Services and Project Management. He was guilty of arranging appointments with more than 150 clients, adding to a ten-year relationship with the National Basketball League. Partnership to design and supply signage and court layout for NBA All-Star Weekend. He also managed and lived at NBA Bubble, the biosecure zone created to protect NBA players and staff from the COVID-19 pandemic, and worked intensively with NBA2K on the design, installation and operation of their studio.
Listen Technologies has promoted Mikey Shaffer to Senior Director of Sales. In this role, Shaffer leads the sales team for Listen Technologies and is the number one liaison for broker networks, regional sales managers, independent manufacturer sales representatives, and suppliers in North America.
Shaffer joined Listen Technologies in 2016 and held marketing, vertical market, and regional sales positions within the organization. Most recently, she was a liaison consultant at Listen Technologies and worked directly with the AV consulting community. You will continue to work as a liaison with this organization and conduct regular webinars and meetings to make sure they are up-to-date on all Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance and global accessibility requirements.
Previously, Shaffer worked with Utah’s local network of deaf and hard of hearing people to provide answers to their telecommunications needs. Shaffer’s curiosity, penchant for learning, and passion for helping others prepared him to excel in sales roles and will serve him well in this new role.
Audio-Technica expands its team committed to the broadcast and production market. Longtime A-T employee Gary Dixon has been promoted to the newly created position of Director of U. S. Broadcasting Business Development. He will report directly to Kurt Van Scoy, vice president and head of product, business alliances and marketing for Audio-Technica in the U. S. U. S. In addition, Dixon’s team will be trained through the following new appointments: Ben Cochran (Engineering and Technology Advisor) and Brent Chamberlin (Transmission Sales Engineer). have the focus and responsibility for sales, strategy and product progression for the Broadcast Division.
In his new role, Dixon will strengthen relationships and create new partnerships with broadcasters, production companies, rights holders, distribution components and service providers. As part of A-T’s ambitious expansion plans for the broadcast market, Dixon will also work heavily with the company’s product and engineering groups to deliver A-T’s most productive cutting-edge responses to broadcast and production consumers in the Americas region.
Dixon’s varied experience in streaming applications, adding sports and special events, will serve him well in his new role. His 20-year career includes work in audio advertising markets, formula answering at Audio-Technica, and owning his own formula design and installation business. He also has many years of experience in the netpainting broadcast markets, working as a freelancer and volunteer at Hudson Community Television (Hudson, OH). During his 10 years at A-T, Dixon helped the company drive sales through technical presentations; worked extensively with sales, marketing, audio responses, and product managers to implement technical and marketing structures for the successful application of A-T products in professional applications; and established and maintained positive relationships with the industry. Most recently, he created strategic plans for broadcast-related professional exposure and earned his status as an AIPMM Certified Product Marketing Manager, to name a few.
Cochran will provide technical guidance on new and existing products for professional broadcasting. Cochran’s 10 years with the company come with product testing and engineering, studies and progression, and joining criteria committees and next-generation organizations. His expertise is heavily focused on microphone progression. and audio-over-IP solutions. He brings years of technical and hands-on experience with IP audio systems and their specific market requirements. Cochran also brings his deep understanding of the broadcast and live streaming markets, specifically in the houses of worship markets as a long-time volunteer and church staff member. His varied experience will be leveraged to design products that power Audio-Technica’s professional streaming offerings into the long term of media production.
Chamberlin will focus on creating new accounts with broadcasters, production companies, rights holders, distribution partners and service providers. His more than ten years at A-T were focused on technical support for all A-T products. He also participated in the summer and winter games to assist in the implementation of A-T products for the host broadcaster. He is a multifaceted engineer and musician. He enjoys capturing sound on an audio console as much as he likes creating music in front of a microphone. His love of audio has led him to take on various roles within the industry. He is an advocate for audio education and continually applies his interest and skills to various audio-related projects.
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